Prospective course outline and schedule:

 

Week 1:  Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The German Ideology  (1845)

Week 2:  Katherine Mansfield, "The Woman at the Store"  (1912)

Week 3:  The Imagists: Ezra Pound and H.D.

Week 4:  T.S. Eliot, from Prufrock and Other Observations  (1917) 

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   (Reading Week)

 

Week 5:  Sigmund Freud, Totem and Taboo  (1913)

Week 6:  D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love  (1920)

Week 7:  James Joyce, Ulysses  (1922)

Week 8:  James Joyce, Ulysses  (1922)

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    (Reading Week)

 

Week 9: Hart Crane, from The Bridge  (1930)

Week 10: Adorno and Horkheimer, The Culture Industry as Mass Deception  (1932)

Week 11: Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot  (1953)

Week 12: Flannery O'Connor, Revelation  (1964)

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More about me:

 

I'm an early career scholar and teacher of European literature and history. With the award of an AHRC scholarship, I completed my doctoral studies in 2019 at the University of Edinburgh, where my research focused on the relationship between poetry, politics, and social change in early modern England. My research is interdisciplinary in approach, combining formalist literary analysis with perspectives drawn from contemporary political theory, theology, and history. My publications to date chart the ways that changing class relations and practices of rule in 17C England affected different modes of religious literature and experience. This research, on John Donne and George Herbert, has appeared in Modern Philology and Studies in Philology, two of the leading academic journals in my field. In 2020/21, I was an Early Career Fellow at the London Renaissance Seminar, Birkbeck College, University of London. I used this time to begin revising my doctoral thesis for publication as a book, provisionally entitled Ungodded England: A Study of State-formation and Religious Poetry. Along with my work on Donne and Herbert, Ungodded England will feature chapters on reason and revolution in Paradise Lost, and new work on Restoration politics and John Dryden’s The Hind and the Panther.

     I have taught several courses, across multiple historical periods, at the University of Edinburgh. These ranged from Medieval and Early Modern Literature, to Romantic, Modernist and Late-Modernist literature and Drama. In my teaching, as in my research, I'm drawn to examining intellectual history and literary art in the context of given social and political conditions. Moreover, having become an early modernist by way of getting to grips with certain currents in modernist and late-modernist poetry, in the course of my doctoral studies I have acquired teaching and research interests in classical literature and its influence upon European writers of the renaissance and early modern periods. 

 

In 2022 I founded Notes to Literature, which will aim to make courses with qualified early career scholars available to the wider public.

 

You can find out more about me and read my work here:

 

https://edinburgh.academia.edu/JonathanGallagher

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http://www.bbk.ac.uk/research/networks/london-renaissance-seminar/fellowships

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www.notestoliterature.com/about-me

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To book a place, or for further information, please email me: jonathan@notestoliterature.com